Job Description:
Responsibilities:
- Project Planning & Management: Develop comprehensive project plans, including resource allocation, timeline management, budgeting, and risk mitigation.
- Stakeholder Communication:Serve as a primary point of contact for stakeholders, providing clear and timely updates on project progress, milestones, and deliverables.
- Risk Management: Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate project risks to minimize impact on timeline, budget, and overall quality.
- Quality Control:Ensure that project deliverables meet quality standards, conduct reviews and implement improvements where necessary.
- Performance Tracking:Use project management tools and metrics to track progress and adjust project plans as needed to stay on target.
- Continuous Improvement:Contribute to process improvement initiatives within the project management team, driving efficiency and effectiveness.
Qualifications:
- BA/BS Degree or equivalent experience. PMP or similar certification is a plus
- Project Management experience in large project and management of distributed project resource teams
- Ideal candidate will have group insurance experience with ability to manage both business and technical deliverables.
- Proficient using JIRA Align, JIRA, SharePoint, MS Office Suite, and other software for project and task management.
- Experience with creating and designing professional power point presentations to convey executive level ideas in support of key initiatives
- An ability to articulate and clearly communicate complex problems and solutions in a simple and logical manner.
- Excellent problem-solving analytical capabilities with strong attention to detail.
- Strong leadership and management skills
- Good knowledge of budgeting and resource allocation procedures; and
- Strong presentation and written communication skills
- Excellent organizational and communication skills
- Ability to manage multiple projects and stakeholders effectively
- Excellent team collaboration skills, to include experience in dealing with multiple projects impacting different processes within the Individual Markets, multi-functional teams, and ability to coordinate across teams in a large matrix organization environment.
- Strong relationship building and maintaining skills. Fosters a climate conducive to establishing positive working relationships with clients (internal and external).
Location:
This position can be based in any of the following locations:
Chennai
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